From the Wall Street Journal, a website such as Yahoo! Finance, or some other source, obtain a

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From the Wall Street Journal, a website such as Yahoo! Finance, or some other source, obtain a current estimate of the risk-free rate (use a 10-year Treasury bond). Use the Value Line Investment Survey or Yahoo! Finance to obtain the beta for each of the companies listed.
a. Compare the current betas with the August 2018 betas given in the chapter for each of the companies.
b. What might cause betas to change over time, even in a stable economic environment?
c. Use the current betas, along with a market risk premium on stocks of 6%, to find the required return for each stock with the CAPM.
d. Compare and discuss your findings in part c with regard to the specific business of each company.

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Fundamentals Of Investing

ISBN: 9780135175217

14th Edition

Authors: Scott B. Smart, Lawrence J. Gitman, Michael D. Joehnk

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